The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-02-19
The Graduate Seeks q Place i'm
Journalism.
GIVES HIM COLD COMFORT AND NO
ENCOURAGEMENT.
Can I come in p

declamatory tone of voice.
Il suppose you can, said the horse re-
portor, unless you are afflicted with
some constitutional malady which pre-
vents your putting one foot in front of
the other, or have got pair of hobbies
on. There have some daisy fellows
come up here lately, but you are the
first one that wanted to know whether
he could go through the open door,
| ued the young man. 'What / wanted
to know was if 1 could come into the
room for few minutes.
Certainly you can; only don't say
anything to the effect that we ought to
have pleasant summer after such a
rainy spring, or you may find yourself
a pallid corpse in the donjon keep be-
meath the moated turrets of the castle.
If you are looking for ZHe Hankins01lle
Clarion or The Grundy County Palla-
dunn, you will find them in that pile of
papers over in the corner. If you are
weary, and fain would WOO the drowsy
god, ask the man in the next room for
Tile Boston Adaertiser. A Boston pa
per will make insomnia flee away as the
black wraths of despair and desolation
vanish before the golden rays of hope.
Don't mistake yon haggard paste-pot
for a cup-custard, because in its con-
tents there is a generous admixture of
deceased cockroaches that but few
short days agone were members of hap
py family circles-now, alas, sundered
by the cruel hand of darksome and
unrelenting fate
Il didn't want to read any exchanges
said the young man. 'The object of my
visit was to see the principal editor
the one who makes engagements with
journalists
'rhe what!'
The editor who makes engagements
with Journalists
ooh, you mean the man that hires the
hands. He's in the other room. Do
you want job?'
WELL said the young man in rather
naughty manner, Il have some thought
of entering the journalistic procession.
you mean that you want to hire out
as a deckhand on newspaper, don't
you?'
perhaps that is your way of express
| ing it, sir, said the young man, 'but
our professor of rhetoric always told us
| that
sOh, you're a college graduate, are
youp' said the horse reporter. Thought
you had kind of I-shall-now-go-forth-
and-take- charge. .of-affairs air about you.
1 suppose you graduated last week.
Eyes, sir, was the reply, 'and l may
say that my oration-'
Il know all about it, interrupted the
horse reporter. you spoke a piece
about sLife's Mission,' or 'Our Coun-
try's Future or something like that,
and when you had finished it the young
lady in the percale dress whom you have
been taking to the weekly meetings OF
the Platoman Literary Society for the
last two years, sent big bouquet up to
the platform for you with little piece
of rose tinted note paper in the centre
of it, with from one who admires geni-
US written on it. And then lot of
Teutonic musicians blew themselves
black in the face playing the Star Span
gled Banner. And in the evening you
went to the presidents reception with
the female admirer of genius, and on
the way home you told her that now
you were about to enter upon a new
sphere of action to go forth and do bat
tls flsg With @ the ~ world, and earye yourself
| felt that you must tell her how your
whole existence was wrapped up in a
pure, holy love for her-a love that
would never falter or fade as long as life
remained. And then she laid her head
trustfully on your manly breast and said
that she would not try to conceal from
you the fact, ever present in her heart,
that you were the one man in all the
wide wide world upon whom she could
freely stow that most precious OF all
gifts. e tender, true and all-absorbing
love Of pure woman. But in about
five years things will look different.
There are now more young men who
started out to carve niche high in the
temple of fame chasing large red steers
over the arid plains of Texas or deliver
ing mackerel to the first families, than
you can shake stick at.
'But surely, sir, you do not mean to
insinuate that college education IS IN
any way hindrance to the accomplish
ment of those ends which it should ever
be the aim of all who have the welfare
of their country at heart to bring about3'
That's just the trouble, said the horse
reporter. you college graduates always
start out with the idea it is your mission
to manipulate the universe, when as
matter of fact the most of you wouldn
do to leave in charge of one small back
yard. Because young man knows all
about the square of the hypothenuse,
and can reel off chunks of Roman his
tory, it does not necessarily follow that
there is wild competition among bust
ness men for his valuable services. Il
the employers of America never go lame
until their legs give out from running
after college graduates, there will be the
soundest lot of underpinning on record
in this country. Erudition is fine
thing, but you can't get much board or
it in this town.
But, SIR said the graduate, the an
nails of every country in which the high
est civilization has obtained show thai
it is the men of letters who shape the
destinies-'
There you go again., said the horse
reporter, talking about shaping desti
nies and all such Cruel as that. Don
you worry about destiny. The chance
are that even if you were to fall owe
what you don't know and break you
neck tomorrow somebody would lool
after the distinguishing business al
right. Your best hold for the next yea
or two will be checking off barrels of A
sugar for some wholesale grocery hous
over on River Street. Destiny won